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Consists of letters written to Walter Deane from 45 correspondents with surnames starting with N-P, mostly regarding botany, as well as personal matters. The letters are arranged alphabetically by sender. Correspondents are: C.W. Nash, Susan T. Smart (regarding Alice Neare's death), Charles Neave, James Carlton Nelson, New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, Mary Woods Noon, Arthur Herbert Norton, Evelyn Norton, Penelope Noyes, Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association, Henry Oldys, May M. Oldys, Topsey Oldys, D. Oliver, Frank F. Olney, Stephen F. Olney, Charles Russell Orcutt, Harry L. Osborne, Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout, Maria Louisa Owen, J.H. Oyster, Sereno Watson, Winthrop John Vanleuven Osterhout, Alice Maria Ottley, Frederic Palmer, Thomas Chalkley Palmer, Louis Hermann Pammel, W.N. Park, Lucy A. Paton, Iola L. Banks (on behalf of John H. Payne), Thomas Gilbert Pearson, Arthur Stanley Pease, Charles Horton Peck, Florence Peebles, David Pearce Penhallow, Sarah A.D. Penhallow, Francis Whittier Pennell, Charles J. Pennock, Thomas Perkins (letter to John E. Thayer), Edward Dyer Peters, Augustus E. Philbrook, Phillips Brooks House (Walter I. Tibbetts), Samuel Thomas Pickard, William Henry Pickering, George A. Plimpton, Charles Christian Plitt, Charles Louis Pollard, Alexander Pope, Thomas Conrad Porter, Cyrus Guernsey Pringle, Edith M. Prouty, Evelyn Purdie, Bessie Lucina Putnam, Frederic Ward Putnam, and William T. Putnam

Walter Deane was born in Boston, Massachusetts on Apr. 23, 1848. He attended Harvard College (Class of 1870) and became a teacher at St. Mark’s School in Southboro, Massachusetts, and later at the Hopkinson School in Boston. He married Margaret Chapman Coolidge in 1878, and they moved to Cambridge shortly thereafter. His interest in botany began to develop around 1880, and after he gave up teaching in 1895, he led small classes in botany and worked for the Metropolitan Park Commission compiling a flora of the park system. He also had a keen interest in ornithology, working as a curator for William Brewster’s ornithological museum and assisting in the preparation of Brewster’s Birds of the Cambridge Region. Deane held no more paid positions after 1907, devoting himself to his own interests. He was a founding member of the New England Botanical Club and was very active in the local botanical community, helping with several floras and corresponding with a great number of botanists. For many years, he spent summers in Shelburne, New Hampshire. Deane died on Jul. 30, 1930

Walter Deane Papers. Archives, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University Herbaria

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